That's enough gripes for the time being: I'm intrigued by all these flat computey things on which one can write.

I've been a Palm user since the III days, but I've given up on using it for capture because the digitiser is still too slow and quirky, even on my T3. Instead, I capture everything on a Moleskine Reporter Notebook during meetings and on my David Allen NoteTaker Wallet pretty much every other waking minute.

The hassle with capturing on paper is that I then have to transfer everything into the digital realm as I process it. That's hard enough that I don't: I'll jot down all my tasks and just enough additional information to give those tasks some useful context, but the rest stays in paper. As a result, I spend a lot of time scratching my head trying to recall something instead of just searching for it.

Having played with a friend's Toshiba convertible a few times, I suspect a tablet might help. Erecting a laptop screen between me and my customers during meetings isn't good for the relationship, but taking notes on a tablet should be fine. Even if the tablet can't parse all of my text, I can read the raw scrawl, and OneNote seems to quietly parse what it can in the background to make that scrawl searchable. Nice.

I'll have more to say on this soon, I suspect, if for no other reason than writing helps me nut things out.